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How many times have you been electric shocked? and do you remember the voltage?

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Shannon:
If you want to listen the stories I have been shocked, I think one day is not enough.

Let's start from the first time in my mind.

I'm not pretty sure my age at that time, I think it's about 6 years old.
At that time, I had a PP3 battery, and I can't remember where I got it, it's my precious, because all of the battery, I had seen, was a cylinder, but this one was a cuboid, it's so different, nobody had a cuboid battery except me in my mind, I took it with me everyday.

One day, during the break time after class, I was sitting in my seat beside the desktop,
and I was lost in thought,
I was thinking about what's the taste of this strange battery, because I have tasted each of the poles of cylinder battery, and I found there was no difference, and there was no doubt that, I couldn't enjoy the two poles at the same time, I was just a little boy.
And then I sticked out my tongue, I put the PP3 battery two poles on my tongue.

The Magic thing was happenned, I had a special feeling that I have never met,  >:D
it's totally different, even though it's not a good feeling makes me enjoy it.
But I really found a new land, that's amazing. 8)

Pandora's box had been opened, I lost myself in the magic world!  :-DD

So I have been shocked many many time, and my first enjoying taste when I'm 6 years old, and it's a 9V battery on my tongue ;D

dave_k:
I've been blatted by 240V twice ... which is three times more than necessary. I will never forget the feeling through my arms and across my chest.

Psi:
In my whole life I've had a 240v shock maybe 10 times. However most of them where contact with phase only, so were limited a by high resistance return path.
Some of them were shocks that didn't even trip the RCD, so current can't have been that high.
Probably only 3 of them were phase to neutral shocks  And I don't think any were between two arms. I think they were all across a few fingers on one hand or something similar.

From memory, it was mainly things like
- Reaching into something or around something that had live parts exposed while believing it was unplugged.
- Working on and debugging a project that cannot be tested without active mains power.
You end up in a cycle of..  test, unpower, solder circuit, power on, test, repeat... and it's easy to forgot a step when you are repeating it 100's of times.

srb1954:
Never had a shock off the 230V mains but had a couple of contacts with the HT in some valve equipment, probably around 250-350V

Once when repairing an old valve radio I pushed aside the mains transformer leads to allow probe access to a bit of circuitry. Unfortunately the lead out wire insulation was all perished and it crumbled away leaving my finger in direct contact with the HV secondary of the transformer.

On another occasion I was adjusting a 100W SSB linear amplifier. I had a bench current meter in the HT line and shifted the meter to better view it. In the process my finger brushed against a strand of wire that wasn't properly secured under the meter terminal connecting me directly to the linear amplifier HT. It was not a pleasant experience and that was the last piece of valve based equipment I have ever worked on.

nfmax:
Just 10 days ago, while undergoing a nerve conduction test for possible carpal tunnel syndrome, I was hit (repeatedly!) with 400V pulses along my fingers. Made me jump, but to my surprise, and that of the neurophysiologist, after 5 fingers had been done, I came over faint. Heart palpitations, dizziness, and severe shortage of breath (all I could do not to rip off my surgical mask). Never had that before, on the odd occasions, many years ago, when I hit a finger with 240V. I have low blood pressure for my age, but I guess it got a bit too low.

That's made me cautious: fortunately I don't do any high-voltage work, except maybe for repairing power supplies. I think I'm going to give that up though, and buy new replacements in future - but there's always something they don't make any more, or charge a fortune for...

P.S. No sign of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome! :)

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